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This is a diagnostic routine to delete textboxes and autoshapes which are empty. By empty I mean shapes which have no fill, no border and contains no text.

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Option Explicit
Sub DeleteEmptyTextBoxes()
Dim oSld As Slide
Dim oShp As Shape
Dim I As Integer
On Error Resume Next
For Each oSld In ActivePresentation.Slides
    For I = oSld.Shapes.Count To 1 Step -1
        Set oShp = oSld.Shapes(I)
        If oShp.Type = msoTextBox Or oShp.Type = msoAutoShape Then
            If oShp.Fill.Visible = False And _
                    oShp.Line.Visible = False And _
                        (Not oShp.TextFrame.HasText) Then
                oShp.Delete
            End If
        End If
        Set oShp = Nothing
    Next I
Next oSld
End Sub